Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin Lectures
free blacks: and abolitionist movement; condemnation of colonization by; discrimination against; removal of; rights of
Freedom’s Journal
Free Enquirer
Freemasons
free thought
free trade
Free Trade Convention
Frelinghuysen, Theodore
Friends of Domestic Industry
Frugal Housewife, The (Child)
Gaines, General Edmund
Gallatin, Albert
Garrison, William Lloyd
Genius of Universal Emancipation
Georgia Guard
Georgia legislature
Gettysburg Address
Gholson, James
Gilbert, Amos
Gilmer, George
Goode, William Osborne
Gray, Thomas R.
Green, Duff
Guide for Emigrants (Peck)
Hall of Science (New York City)
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, Thomas
Hammond, James
Hayne, Robert
Henry, Patrick
Hone, Philip
House of Representatives, U.S.; Indian Affairs Committee; Ways and Means Committee
Houston, Sam
Illustrations of Masonry (Morgan)
immigrants
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Indians; antiremoval missionaries and; Catlin and; Christianity and; comparisons between blacks and; forced migration of(see also removal of Indians); property rights and; right to self-government and; Tocqueville’s observations on; treaties with; see also specific tribes
individualism, American
Infant School Society
Ingham, Samuel
inheritance laws, abolition of
Jackson, Andrew; annual messages to Congress of; Anti-Masons and; Bank of the United States and; cabinet and; Calhoun and; cartoons of; description of; Indians and; internal improvements and; nullification and; railroads and; Supreme Court and; tariffs and; and wife’s death
Jackson, Rachel
James Perkins (ship)
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas; on emancipation; racial beliefs of; on states’ rights
John Bull (steam locomotive)
Johnson, William
Jones, Evan
judicial review, doctrine of
Kennedy, James
Kentucky legislature
Kentucky Resolutions (1798, 1799)
Keokuk
Knight, Charles
laboring class, see working class
labor movement
Latrobe, John
Lectures on Revivals of Religion (Finney)
Lewis, Meriweather
Liberator, The
Liberia, emigration to
lien law
Lincoln, Abraham
Liverpool and Manchester Railroad
Louis-Philippe, king of France
lower class, see working class
Lumpkin, Wilson
Lundy, Benjamin
Madison, James
Magdalen Society
Malthus, Thomas
Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (Nuttall)
Marie, or Slavery in the United States (Beaumont)
Marshall, John; Cherokee Nation and; and removal of free blacks; wife’s death and
Massachusetts General Colored Association
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts Journal
May, Samuel J.
Maysville Road Bill
McCormick, Cyrus
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
McDuffie, George
McLane, Louis
McLean, John
Mechanics’ Free Press
Mechanics Union of Trade Associations
Men and Manners in America (Hamilton)
middle class
militia system
Mississippi legislature
Missouri Crisis of 1819–20
Mohawk and Hudson Railway Line
monopolies, abolition of
Monroe, James
Monthly American Journal of Geology and the Natural Sciences
Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question (Owen)
Moral Physiology Exposed and Refuted (Skidmore)
Morgan, William
Mormon Church
Mother’s Book, The (Child)
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Nashoba
National Bank
National Gazette
National Intelligencer
National Republicans
Newburyport Herald
New Divinity theology
New Divinity Tried, The (Rand)
New Echota, Treaty of
New England Anti-Slavery Society
New England Artisan and Farmers, Mechanics, and Laboring Man’s Repository
New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics & Other Working Men
New-Haven Register
New Haven theology, see New Divinity theology
New Jersey Journal of Commerce
New Orleans, Battle of
New School theology, see New Divinity theology
newspapers; abolitionist; Anti-Masonic; black; Democratic; labor; see also specific titles
New York and Harlem Rail Road
New York Evening Post
New York Journal of Commerce
New York Mirror
New York Register
New York Telegraph
Niles, Hezekiah
Niles’ Weekly Register
Norfolk Herald
North American Review
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson)
nullification; Adams and; Calhoun and; Congress and; Constitution and; Jackson and; slavery and; tariffs and; as threat to Union
Nullification Proclamation
Nuttall, Thomas
Old Ironsides (steam locomotive)
On the Formation of the Christian Character (Ware)
Ordinance of Nullificat
Ornithological Biography (Audubon)
Osage Indians
Owen, Robert (utopian planner)
Owen, Robert Dale (editor, social reformer, and politician)
Parliament, British
Peck, J. M.
Pendleton (South Carolina) Messenger
Pennsylvania Whig
Petersburg Intelligencer
Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad
Philadelphia Gazette
Philadelphia Museum
Phipps, Benjamin
Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (Catlin)
Pinckney, General Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney, Thomas
Pleasants, John Hampden
Poinsett, Joel
Pontchartrain Railroad
prejudice, racial; see also segregation
Presbyterians, see Calvinists
Preston, William
Prison Discipline Society
private property
prostitution
public relief
Quitman, John
railroads
Rand, Asa
Randolph, Jane
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Randolph, Thomas Mann
“Rats Leaving a Falling House, The” (Clay)
reaper, mechanical
Reform Bill, British
removal: of blacks to Africa; of Indians from native lands
Report on Manufactures (Hamilton)
Republicans: Revolutionary-era; see also National Republicans
Results of Machinery, The (Knight)
revivalism
Rhea, John
Ricardo, David
Richmond Enquirer
Ridge, John
Ridge, Major
R
ights of All
Rights of Man to Property, The (Skidmore)
Roane, William Henry
Robert Fulton (steam locomotive)
Roebling, Johann
Ross, John
Ross, Quatie
runaway slaves
Rush, Richard
salvation
Saturday Bulletin
Sauk Indians
Scott, General Winfield
secession
Second Great Awakening
Sedgwick, Catherine
Sedgwick, Henry
segregation
self-help
Seminole Indians
Senate, U.S.; Patents Committee
Sergeant, John
Seward, William
Shakers
Simpson, Stephen
“Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts” (Finney)
Sioux (Dakota Indians)
Six Months in America (Vigne)
“Skating Scene on the River Delaware” (Clay)
Skidmore, Thomas
slave insurrections; see also Turner, Nat
slavery: abolition of; antiliteracy legislation and; Congress and; Constitution and; nullification and; Tariff of 1828 and; technology and; as threat to Union; Tocqueville’s observations on; Trollope’s observations on; Virginia legislature and; see also emancipation; runaway slaves; slave insurrections
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Margaret Bayard
solar eclipse of 1831, see eclipse of 1831
South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
South Carolina legislature
Sprague, Peleg
states’ rights
States Rights and Free Trade Party
steam engine; rail travel and; river travel and
Stephenson, Robert
Stevens, Robert
Stevens, Thaddeus
Storrs, Henry
Story, Joseph
Story, Louisa
Superior (steamboat)
Supreme Court; implied-powers-clause decision; Indian sovereignty decisions; monopoly decision
Tallmadge, James
Taney, Roger
Tappan, Arthur
Tappan, Lewis
Tariff Party
tariffs; free trade and; nullification and; as threat to Union
Tassel, George
temperance
Thompson, Smith
Thoughts on Afircan Colonization (Garrison)
Tocqueville, Alexis de; on American character; on Indians; on penitentiary system; on slavery; on tariffs
Todd, Francis
Tom Thumb (steam locomotive)
Topographical Engineers, U.S.
Tornado in an American Forest (Cole)
trade unions; see also labor movement
“Trait of Tears,”
Transatlantic Sketches (Alexander)
transcendentalism
Travis, Joseph
Trollope, Frances
Tudor, Henry
Turner, Nat; capture of; death of; as inspiration for slave insurrections; as prophet; rebellion of
turnpikes
Union and States Rights Party
Union Church Committee
Unionists of South Carolina
unions, trade; see also labor movement
Unitarians, see Arminians
United States Gazette
United States Telegraph
universal education
Universalists, see Arminians
upper classes
utopian communities
Van Buren, Martin; Cherokee removal and; as member of Jackson’s cabinet
Vaughan, Arthur
Vaughan, Eliza
Vaughan, Rebecca
veto, presidential
Vigilance Association of Columbia, South Carolina
Vigne, Godfrey
Virginia Court of Appeals
Virginia Resolutions (1798)
Virginia legislature
Volunteer, The (Rand)
Watie, Stand
Walker, David
Waller, Mrs. Levi
Ware, Henry Jr.
Warner, Samuel
War of 1812
Warren Bridge Company
Washington, George
Washington Globe
Wayland, Francis
wealth, reallocation of
Webster, Daniel; Anti-Masons and; Bank of the United States and; presidential aspirations of
Whig Party
Whitcomb, Samuel
White Cloud
Whitney, Eli
Wi-jun-jon (Pigeon’s Egg Head)
Wilson, Alexander
Wirt, William; and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; as AntiMasonic presidential candidate; and Cherokee Nation; and C & O Canal
Wisner, Benjamin
Witherell, George
Witherell, Lucinda
women; in middle class; religious revivals and; rights of; in working class
Worcester, Samuel
workday, length of
working class: activism of; cholera epidemic and; religion and; women in
Working Man’s Advocate, The
Working Man’s Manual
Working Men of New York
Working Men’s movement
Working Men’s Party
Wright, Frances
yellow-fever epidemic
York (steam locomotive)
“,00001—The Value of a Unit with Four Cyphers Going Before It” (Clay)
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